"It was only Kevin's opinion on the hypothesis."
"I know, but why did he think that?"
"He said it was a-a 'phoney thing to come straight to a lawyer'."
"What nonsense! It was a very sensible thing to do."
"Yes. That was his point. It was too sensible. Too pat. Everything, Kevin said, was too pat for his liking. He said a boy coming home after years away would go home."
"Then he doesn't know Patrick. That is just what Patrick would have done: broken it gently by going to the family lawyer first. He was always the most thoughtful and unselfish of creatures. I don't think much of the clever Mr. Macdermott's analysis."
"I felt it only right to tell you everything," Mr. Sandal said, still miserably.
"Yes, of course," Bee said kindly, recovering her temper. "Did you tell Mr. Macdermott that Patrick-that the boy had remembered crying at Olympia? I mean, that he had volunteered the information."
"I did; yes."
"And he still thought the boy was lying?"